Adjustable window-shade hanger.



W. T. VALENTINE. ADJUSTABLE WINDOW SHADE HANGER. APPLICATION FILED AUG.10,,1912.

1,00,869, Patented Dec. 9, 1913.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented'Dee. 9, 19 13.

Application filed August 10, 1912. Serial No. 714,878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER T. VALEN- Turn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Adjustable Window-Shade Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates more particularly to devices adapted to support the ordinary spring roller shade in adjustable relation'to a window, and the principal object of the invention is to provide a shade hanger whereby either the upper or the lower end may be raised or lowered independently of the opposite end.

It is also an object to provide a shade capable of exposing the window at the upper part.

It, is alSO an object to provide a hanger positively supported by the operating means.

It is also an object to provide a hanger which will support and actuate a plurality of shades and shade rollers.

It is a further object to provide an easily formed and economical structure to carry out the above named objects.

In the drawings accompanying this specification and forming therewith the application for Letters Patent: Figure 1 is an inside elevation of a window casing showing the invention applied thereto and the upper portion of the window exposed. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail view, partly in section, of the guideways, slides, brackets and shade roller. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2 looking in the direction of the arrows, the shade supporting pulley being shown in elevation. Fig. 1 is a small sectional detail of the lower end of the guideway carrying the operating line, showing the method of supporting the guideway and securing the shade roller actuating cord. Fig. 5 is a sectional detail through the pulley supporting the spring end of the shade roller, and the bracket, slide and guideway also in cross section at this point. Fig. 6 is a section on the line 6-601? Fig. 2, viewed in the direction of the arrows, showing the slotted bearing for the end of the shade roller opposite the spring end. Fig. 7 is a perspective detail of the actuating cord guides removed from the slide to show clearly the guide channels for the'actuating cord. Fig. 8 is a sectional detail similar to Fig. 3 showing the bracket with two rollers mounted thereon in two actuating pulleys.

Heretoi'ore shade rollers have been supported in guideways so as to expose the upper portion of the window, but the methods heretofore adopted have required a cooperative action on the part of the operator to roll or unroll the shade.

This invention does away with the auxiliary action, the lower end of the shade preservin a fixed relation, or remaining as desired when the upper portion is being rolled or unrolled, to expose the window.

In the drawings like numerals designate similar parts in all the views, 10 representing a window casing on which is mounted the upper sash 11 and the lower sash 12. Secured to the side of the casing are the guideways 13 and 14 preferably formed out or": sheet metal and bent into the hook shape cross section, being supported at the lower ends by suitable sockets 15, the upper ends of the guideways being supported in the sockets 16 and 17. The latter sockets 17 and 16 are of different form from those that support the lower end of the guideways, this latter bracket 15 being provided with a flange 18 to which is fastened a screw 19 securing the socket and the actuating cord to the casing 10. The opening passage of the operating line and actuating cord, the flange 21 securely embracing the sides of the guideways 1a. The socket 16 at the upper end of the guideways 18is a simple embracing strap secured by two screws. The socket 17 is provided with a pulley 22 over which is passed the upper end of the operating line passing through the guideway 1a secured to the slide mounted therein.

The guideways, as before stated, are pref erably formed of sheet metal with a hook shaped cross section, the slot formed by the open portion of the guideways to face one another, and receive a slide 23 which is preferably formed integral with the hanger brackets 2a and the socket bracket 25 adapted to embrace the cross bar. he component parts shown are preferably formed out of sheet metal, though casting'may be readily substituted therefor. The sheet metal, however, as shown, securing means at the points 26 where the sash bracket andthe cross bar bracket meet.-

20 admits the requiring some The slide is provided with a channel, one of the walls being provided with the open ings 27 to which'are secured the inner ends of the slide operating line 28, its free loop being carried through the guideway 14 and over the pulley 22. The channel of the slide is also adapted to contain the roller actuating cords 29 and 30, the free ends of these latter being secured to the opposite diagonal ends of the guideways. The slide 23 on the left hand side of the window is adapted to slide in the guideway 14 and has a roller shade bracket 24 extending at right angles to its slide face, suitable flanges being formed on its outer surface which protects and forms the recess for the spring roller pulley 32, a portion of the wall 24 being struck up in the same direction of the flange 31, to form the bearing 33 engaging one component side member of the pulley 32. The opposite or inner member of this.

pulley is provided with the slot 34 which is adapted to receive the flattened end hearing of the winding spring of an ordinary spring shade roller 35. Preferably formed out of sheet metal and adapted to be placed in the slide adjacent the pulley 32 is the actuating cord guideway 36 provided with a plurality of channels 37, 38, 39 formed by upsetting portions of the sheet metal of which the part is composed into the curved tracks as clearly shown in Fig. 7. The actuating cord 30, the upper end of which is secured on the socket 17, is led down into the slide through the channel 37 in the cord guide and passes to the groove in the pulley 32, and carried thereupon, passing to the channel 38 where it is guided across the window through the slot 48 formed in the cross bar 40, where it meets with the cord guide 41 which is provided with the channel 42 through which the cord passes and is led through the channel in the slide and down the guideway 13 to be secured by the screw at the lower end of the socket 15. The second cord, preferably called an idler cord, 29 is secured at the upper end of the guideway 13 at the socket 16 and carried down through the guideway 13 into the channel in the slide and is engaged with the curved channel 43, thence passing across the window partly in the channel inclosed by the cross bar bracket 25 and the slot 48 till it reaches the other cord guide, passing through the curved channel 39 to the channel in the slide 23 and down to the lower end and through the guideway 14 to its lower end, where it is secured to the socket at this point by the screw 19.

The cross bar 40 is provided with the slot 48 the upper and lower edges of the ends bein engaged and secured to the flanges 44 on tie brackets 25, holding the slides and their supporting roller brackets in fixed relation to the guideways together with the actuating cords 29 and 30. The slide 23 on the right is formed similarly to the opposite slide, but "the roller bracket flange '45 is carried down in vertical plane corresponding to the axle of" the pulley 32 and is adapted to guide and support the cylindrical bearing 46 of the shade roller 35.

As before stated, the shade roller is of the ordinary spring actuated type provided with a flexible shade 47 and in Fig. 8 a modification of the slide has been shown in which two shade rollers are mounted, each having a pulley 32 supporting the squared bearing of the roller, the cord being led as before through the curved channels, but embraces the grooves of both pulleys. This latter is provided when it is desired to have shades of two colors in a window, either of which may be used alternately or in conjunction with one another.

The operation of this device will be readily understood by the description of the component portions of the invention and the brief description of the operation following: Taking the shade as shown in Fig. 1, if it is desired to raise the roller so that'the exposed upper portion of the sash 11 is to be covered, a pull downward on the outer portion of the cord of the operating line 28 will lift and slide the slide 23 upwardly, the cord 30 will frictionally engage the pulley 32 and the latter will be revolved in the direction of the arrows shown in Fig. 3, and the shade will be unwound from the roller as the latter is carried upward by a continued pull on the line 28. The periphery of the engaging portion of the groove corresponding with the average diameter of the shade 47 as rolled on the roller 35, the lower end of the shade will preserve a practically stationary position in relation to the window casing. It will be seen that as the roller is freely mounted in the device, the latter can be operated below thissupport in the usual manner to raise or lower a curtain of this character.

What I claim is:

1. A window shade hanger comprising a pair of guides, a pair of brackets slidably mounted in said guides, a shade roller mounted in said brackets, and crossed'cables connected with said roller and said brackets, whereby a sliding movement of the brackets actuates the roller.

2. A window shade hanger comprising a pair of guides, a pair of brackets slidably and cooperatively mounted in said guides, a fixed cable for operating the shade roller by the sliding movement of said brackets, and means to actuate said brackets in their guides.

3. A window shade hanger comprising a pair of guideways adapted to be supported on a window casing, a pair of brackets co-. operatlvely and slidably mounted in said guides, a cross bar connecting said brackets, a shade roller mounted in said brackets, and fixed cables carried through said guides and brackets whereby the roller shade is actuated.

l. A window shade hanger comprising a pair of guideways adapted to be supported on a window casing, slides mounted in said guideways, shade roller supporting brackets mounted on said slides, a shade roller revolubly mounted on said brackets, and actuating cables for said roller shade carried through said brackets and said guideways, whereby when the slide is moved the shade roller is actuated, but the exposed shade preserves a fixed relation to said window casing.

5. A window shade hanger comprising a pair of guideways adapted to be mounted on a window casing, slides mounted in said guideways, means for sliding said slides, a cross bar connecting said slides, a shade roller having a spring trunnion mounted adjacent said cross bar and having bearings in said brackets, a pulley mounted on one of said brackets to engage and register with the spring trunnion of said roller, and flexible means connected with said guideway and said pulley to actuate the shade roller when the slides are moved.

6. A window shade hanger comprising a pair of guideways, slides movably mounted in said guideways, means for sliding said slides, a plurality of brackets secured to said slides, a channeled cross bar supported and secured in a pair of said brackets, a shade roller mounted in a co -acting pair of said brackets, a pulley engaging and supporting the bearing of one end of said roller,

said pulley being rotatably mounted on one of said brackets, a cord guiding member secured to said slide adjacent said pulley, and a fixed cord guided by said cord guides over said pulley and through the channel in said cross bar, whereby the pulley and shade roller are actuated.

7. A window shade hanger comprising a pair of guideways, slides movably mounted therein, means for moving said slides supporting brackets secured to said slides, a spring shade roller mounted between said brackets, cord guides secured in said slides, crossed cords secured in engagement with said cord guides and secured to said guideways, and means intermediate said shade roller and said crossed cords whereby the roller is revolved when the slides are moved.

8. An adjustable window shade hanger, comprising guideways, sockets to secure said guideways to a window casing, one of said guideway sockets supporting a pulley, slides adapted to slide in said guideways, an operating line secured to one of said slides, crossed shade roller actuating cords secured to oppositely disposed ends of said guideways, a spring shade roller mounted on said slides, and actuating cords and said roller, whereby rotary movement is imparted to said roller by moving said slides.

In witness that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto subscribed my name this 2nd day of August, 1912.

-W. T. VALENTINE.

Witnesses EDMUND A. STRAUsE, EARLE R. PoLLAnn.

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Washington, D. C.

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